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The Hit (1984)
11K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Ex-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former "colleagues" and now lives in Spain where he thinks he can hide from their vengeance...
Style:
road movie, neo noir, offbeat, dark comedy, noir, bloody, suspense, entertaining, manga, cult classic ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
hitman, professional killer, killer, criminal, organized crime, road trip, desert, kidnapping, crime family, revenge, mortality, mafia, monster, distopia, police officer, caper, assassin, politics, spirituality, professional, cat and mouse, underworld, contract killer, criminal mind, gangster ...
Time:
year 1984, 80s, 70s
Place:
spain, britain, basque country, paris france, france, europe, england ...
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Most similar movies to The Hit
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspense and suspenseful films with plots about murder, hitman, gangster, violence, revenge, mafia and criminal mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Hit: No Country for Old Men (2007), Get Carter (1971), Collateral (2004), Fargo (1996), The Long Good Friday (1980). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A mafia film in Tarantino style with a star-studded cast. Jimmy’s “The Saint” gangster career has finally ended. Yet now he finds him self doing favors for a wise godfather known as “The Man with the Plan.”
Style:
neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
mafia, gangster, crime gone awry, hitman, one last job, organized crime, buddies, revenge, redemption, gunfight, dark humor, hopes ...
Time:
year 1995, 90s
Place:
usa, colorado, denver colorado, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
hitman, psychopath, shooting, serial killer, peril, desert, human nature, brutality, death, sheriff, cruelty, bounty hunter ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place:
texas, el paso texas, mexico, america, austin texas ...
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Michael Caine is Jack Carter, a small-time hood working in London. When word reaches him of his brothers death, he travels to Newcastle to attend the funeral. Refusing to accept the police report of suicide, Carter seeks out his brother’s friends ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, grindhouse, cult classic, grim ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, gangster, hitman, organized crime, investigation, british gangster, mafia, violent, murder, assassin, gangsta, vigilante ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1971
Place:
england, northern england, britain, europe, london
Similarity:
100%
464K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Cab driver Max picks up a man who offers him $600 to drive him around. But the promise of easy money sours when Max realizes his fare is an assassin.
Style:
neo noir, clever, tense, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience:
date night, manly, boys' night
Plot:
hitman, hostage, taxi, taxi driver, contract killer, sociopath, twists and turns, assassin, nihilism, merciless, professional killer, death ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, south america, southern california, persia ...
Similarity:
33%
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779K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to ...
Style:
neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy, atmospheric, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
small town, snow, dark humor, crime gone awry, ransom, kidnapping, murder, satire, foul language, police, psychopath, winter ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1987, year 1996
Place:
minnesota, minneapolis minnesota, north dakota, usa, persia
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future ...
Style:
neo noir, cynical, harsh, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
gangster, ira, organized crime, mafia, crime boss, terrorist, car bomb, danger, revenge, rivalry, criminal's revenge, murder ...
Time:
70s, year 1980, 80s, 20th century
Place:
england, ireland, london, britain, europe ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.
Style:
neo noir, brutal, suspenseful, intense, tense ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
robbery, violence, mafia, organized crime, gangster, hitman, poker, brutality, crime gone awry, assassin, murder, sex ...
Time:
year 2012, 2010s, year 2008, 2000s, 70s ...
Place:
louisiana, usa, florida, orlando florida, new orleans
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Mike Sullivan works as a hit man for crime boss John Rooney. Sullivan views Rooney as a father figure, however after his son is witness to a killing, Mike Sullivan finds himself on the run in attempt to save the life of his son and at the same time ...
Style:
harsh, atmospheric, suspense, visually stunning, period piece ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
mafia, vengeance, hitman, revenge, criminal's revenge, gangster, violence, road trip, murder, coming of age, on the road, on the run ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 2000s, year 1931, year 2002
Place:
illinois, chicago, persia, michigan, usa
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Hit man Cleve approaches writer/cop Dennis about a story for his next book: How Cleve made a living, working for one of the most powerful politicians in the country. To get the story right, they travel around the country to gather statements and ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, suspense, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
hitman, professional killer, killer, writers, serial killer, contract killer, assassin, police detective, vengeance, psychopath, danger, writer's life ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1987, 70s
Place:
texas, california, oregon, new york
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An examination of the malevolent London underworld with it's despicable criminal underground. Ray (Mick Rossi) just finished an eight year prison sentence after getting set up. Now he is back on the streets to settle the score.
Style:
tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, criminal underworld, prison, criminal, gangster, crime gone awry, dishonesty, released from prison, corrupt cop, police detective, police investigation, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, los angeles, britain
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed. Cohen, an older professional becomes increasingly irritated with his partner Tate, a brutish killer, when ...
Style:
neo noir, road movie, surprise ending, cult classic, entertaining ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
child in peril, hitman, assassin, kidnapping, child kidnapping, professional killer, killer, hostage, witness protection program, witness, on the road, little boy ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
austin texas, texas, oklahoma, houston texas
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Slevin is mistakenly put in the middle of a personal war between the city’s biggest criminal bosses. Under constant watch, Slevin must try not to get killed by an infamous assassin and come up with an idea of how to get out of his current dilemma. ...
Style:
surprise ending, suspense, neo noir, clever, dark comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
twists and turns, hitman, assassin, revenge, plot twist, mistaken identity, organized crime, disorder, secrets, mysterious character, mafia, master criminal ...
Time:
2000s, year 1979, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, seattle
Similarity:
28%
207K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save his own skin...
Style:
neo noir, intense, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, violence, sex, drug dealing, twists and turns, gangster, chase, murder, drug, british gangster, drug lord, caper ...
Time:
year 2004, 70s, 90s, 60s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, britain, amsterdam, netherlands ...
Similarity:
26%
113K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The owner of a seedy small-town Texas bar discovers that one of his employees is having an affair with his wife. A chaotic chain of misunderstandings, lies and mischief ensues after he devises a plot to have them murdered.
Style:
neo noir, cult classic, psychological, tense, independent film ...
Audience:
date night, manly
Plot:
private detective, murder mystery, twists and turns, murder, crime gone awry, extramarital affair, adultery, hired killer, investigation, betrayal, visceral, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place:
texas, austin texas, midwest, usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, tense, stylized, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, betrayal, mafia, corruption, gangster, shootout, irish mob, loyalty, love triangle, blackmail, mobster, prohibition era ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 1930s, year 1990, 1920s
Place:
usa, new orleans, new york
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A two-bit criminal takes on the Mafia to avenge his brother's death. Earl Macklin is a small time criminal who is released from prison after an unsuccessful bank robbery only to discover that a pair of gunmen killed his brother.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, mafia, brother brother relationship, murder, prison, organized crime, bank robbery, hitman, danger, rivalry, crime gone awry, chase ...
Time:
future, 70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, st. louis missouri
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught.
Style:
neo noir, detective, sexy, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
loner, hitman, assassination, chase, professional killer, lone wolves, gangster, surveillance, police investigation, murder, assassin, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
26%
153K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, black comedy, visually stunning, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, money, mafia, robbery, violence, betrayal, organized crime, twists and turns, greed, anti hero, prostitute ...
Time:
future, 70s, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa, new york
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Mob assassin Jeffrey is no ordinary hired gun; the best in his business, he views his chosen profession as a calling rather than simply a job. So, when beautiful nightclub chanteuse Jennie is blinded in the crossfire of his most recent hit, Jeffrey ...
Style:
cult classic, bloody, suspense, atmospheric, harsh ...
Audience:
boys' night, date night, manly
Plot:
hitman, heroic bloodshed, assassin, professional killer, killer, redemption, yakuza, gunfight, organized crime, contract killer, friendship, triad ...
Time:
20th century, year 1989, 80s
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Young Treasury Agent Elliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jimmy Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most ...
Style:
clever, suspenseful, period piece, inspirational, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, adult
Plot:
mafia, gangster, organized crime, corruption, prohibition era, mentor, shootout, smuggling, prohibition, police, tax evasion, gunfight ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
chicago, america, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The idyllic life of retired safecracker Gal is put at risk when a psychotic gangster from his past arrives at his villa in southern Spain, intent on bringing him out of retirement for one last job.
Style:
cult classic, dark comedy, black comedy, neo noir, cerebral ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night
Plot:
heist, gangster, robbery, retired, abuse, mafia, safecracker, one last job, organized crime, british gangster, violent, bank robbery ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2001, 20th century, 90s
Place:
spain, england, mediterranean sea, europe, london ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Stone (Peter Coyote) hits an armored truck without his usual driver. The ensuing getaway leads to the death of an innocent. The payback is swift and brutal. The wronged father hires a twisted, sociopathic assassin to avenge his loss. One by one the ...
Style:
perverse, independent film, eighties
Plot:
robbery, dead child, car accident, murder, machine gun, revenge, manslaughter, assassination, thief, cat, death of child, hitman ...
Time:
future, year 1983, 80s
Place:
england, london, united kingdom, britain
Similarity:
24%
38K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece ...
Style:
neo noir, cult classic, suspense, non-linear, stylized ...
Plot:
revenge, gangster, investigation, vengeance, father daughter relationship, death of daughter, mansion, ex convict, hitman, murder, shootout, showdown ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 60s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, california, southern california, england, usa ...
Similarity:
23%
Movie in collections
48K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he ...
Style:
neo noir, noir, retro, cult classic, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
safecracker, bank robbery, robbery, mafia, organized crime, character study, heist, criminal, bank robber, great ending, violence, betrayal ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, 20th century, 70s
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois, los angeles, new jersey
Similarity:
23%
229K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine ...
Style:
suspense, political, realistic, thought provoking, anthology ...
Plot:
drug traffic, organized crime, drug abuse, drug dealer, drug lord, addiction, drug addiction, drug cartel, drug, war on drugs, politics, corruption ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s, 2000s
Place:
mexico, latin america, california, ohio, los angeles ...
Similarity:
23%
131K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Hired by a powerful member of the Russian mafia to avenge an FBI sting that left his brother dead, the perfectionist Jackal proves an elusive target for the men charged with the task of bringing him down: a deputy FBI boss and a former IRA terrorist.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, political thriller, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, assassin, assassination attempt, revenge, killer, chase, professional killer, assassination, contract killer, hired killer, terrorism, gangster ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
chicago, washington d.c., russia, moscow russia, montreal ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In this modern day version of Shakespeare's Macbeth, a hitman heeds a spiritualist's prophesies that he will rise to the head of his family. He starts his ascension by clandestinely executing the heads of the family and casting the blame ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspense, exciting, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, shakespeare, hitman, dishonesty, rivalry, ambition, murder, tough heroes, gangster, macbeth, fortune teller, betrayal ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, new york, bronx new york city
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Following the death of his mother, J finds himself living with his estranged family, under the watchful eye of his doting grandmother, Smurf, mother to the Cody boys. J quickly comes to believe that he is a player in this world. But, as he soon ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, bleak, visually appealing, neo noir ...
Plot:
violence, organized crime, gangster, mafia, bad mother, investigation, justice, complex characters, vengeance, character study, drug dealer, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
australia, peru, melbourne, oceania, new zealand
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Russian teenager, living in London, dies during childbirth but leaves clues to a midwife in her journal, that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Style:
neo noir, disturbing, tense, serious, intense ...
Plot:
rape, murder, russian mafia, gangster, mob boss, prostitution, twists and turns, male nudity, organized crime, violent, death in childbirth, child prostitute ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, st. petersburg russia, europe, scotland yard ...
Similarity:
22%
106K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him.
Style:
suspense, sexy, ambiguous ending, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hitman, loner, one last job, nudity, sex, undercover, anti hero, betrayal, skinny dipping, small town, assassination, moral dilemma ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, california, canada
Similarity:
21%
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